Fairview Lake

Fairview Lake, Delaware Water Gap (3/22/2008)

This 7-mile out-and-back is along a beautiful stretch of the Appalachian Trail. We started where the AT crosses Route 602 (Millbrook-Blairstown Road), taking it northeast for about 3.5 miles, had lunch on a unmarked spur trail overlooking the beautiful Fairview Lake, before heading back.

A good part of the AT on this stretch is along an old woods road that served as access to a large number of houses that were occupied here several decades ago. Those houses belonged to folks who were forced out by the government during the 1970s fiasco regarding the damming of the Delaware river at Tocks Island. To read a fascinating account of the aborted dam project, check out this 11-part series that appeared in The Pocono Record in 2001.

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